Quotes about Communication

It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Journalists are like dogs?when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Deny that the Bible is, without any qualifications, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority. Grant that the Bible is a Divine revelation and communication of God's own mind and will to men, and you have a fixed starting point from which an advance can be made into the domain of truth.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-old son knows that. Black men themselves must examine and articulate their own desires and positions and stand by the conclusions thereof. No point is served by a Black male professional who merely whines at the absence of his viewpoint in Black women's work. Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

I realize that if wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.

I am reminded of how difficult and time-consuming it is to reinvent the pencil every time you want to send a message.

The language by which we have been taught to dismiss ourselves and our feelings as suspect is the same language we use to dismiss and suspect each other.

Toni did not speak English and I didn't speak Russian, but I felt as if we were making love that last night through our interpreters. I still don't know if she knew what was going on or not, but I suspect that she did.